On 17-Jul-08, at 1:30 PM, Nikhil Kala wrote:
I am trying to create animated small banners.
For windows there is flash software is available.
But for this is there any package or utility available on Linux
platform?
openlazlo
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On 16-Jul-08, at 4:27 PM, Amit Karpe wrote:
Brain child of the California-headquartered Azingo, the first
commercial phone based on this operating system is expected to hit the
European markets by the first half of 2009 and the Indian shores by
2010
I thought motorola brought out linux
hi,
NRC-FOSS is pleased to announce that a LAMP workshop for lecturers in
Shivaji University was successfully conducted recently. We thank
those members of Mumbai and Pune LUGs who sacrificed their time to
make the workshop a success. Details here:
On 03-Jul-08, at 6:37 PM, Arun Khan wrote:
On Thursday 03 Jul 2008, Sarang Lakare wrote:
Thats not correct. The 7.7 million from US are the current stats with
28million total downloads of firefox3 so far. Out of the 8 million,
probably 2-3 were from US.
Good eye re: 7.7M out of 28M,
On 30-Jun-08, at 11:53 AM, Ranjit Bhonsle wrote:
Had been to crome recently where I saw a Acer 4720 .
It was having bluetooth and wifi and lastly it had linux.
So out of quriosity I booted the machine.
It had something called as Linpus linux.
It booted to a command prompt.
I tried startx
hi,
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On 12-Jun-08, at 2:58 PM, yogesh desai wrote:
We have opening for Linux administrator with experience of 1.5 to 4.
linux is only upto 2.x so far so it is strange to expect experience of 4
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hi,
Sandip Saini of NRC-FOSS is doing his PhD in a study of foss
methodologies. As part of his work, he is trying to compile a set of
FOSS success stories. Definition:
quote
Documenting the success stories of FOSS implementation in India--
Nature, Scope and Methodology of the study.
The goal
On 09-Jun-08, at 1:44 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote:
Try Xubuntu if you have decent amount of memory (256MB).
Probably, Mandriva (or any distro for that matter) running a
lightweight GUI like XFCE or Icewm should be good enough for you. I
had tried Mandriva 9 (or was it 10? forgot the
On 18-May-08, at 6:30 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
I wonder if anybody has yet started doing Doctoral Studies in
Economics of Free Software, that would be very interesting...
I know of tow doctoral sudies on FOSS
s/tow/two/
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On 17-May-08, at 11:02 AM, ഓം wrote:
I wonder if anybody has yet started doing Doctoral Studies in
Economics of Free Software, that would be very interesting...
I know of tow doctoral sudies on FOSS
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On 24-Apr-08, at 11:31 AM, Sale Rahul wrote:
When it comes to Linux, we are little stuck on how to
install the WebCamera on the Red Hat linux.
what happens when you plug the web camera into the linux box? Give
output of
tail -f /var/log/messages
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On 24-Apr-08, at 7:33 AM, Sandeep Sathe wrote:
platform, would like to do it in linux. I was
suggested to use GTK+ tool which is based on
motif/X-Windows.
you have three choices:
qt
gtk+
wxWidgets
all three are very well documented with lots of tutorials and howtos.
They also have active
On 19-Apr-08, at 12:26 AM, Kunal Thakar wrote:
Buy a Thinkpad or a Dell that comes with Linux ;)
I don't know about Sony, but Dell and Lenovo offer machines with
FreeDOS or
something, which essentially means that you install whatever you want.
I bought the Dell Inspiron 1420N that comes
On 19-Apr-08, at 10:31 PM, Ameet Gholap wrote:
I remember a person in austria or some place like that who rejected
the EULA
during the 1st boot - was XP. took photos of the rejection and then
asked
for refund.
initially he was not entertained. but a notice from court did the
trick, I
On 18-Apr-08, at 2:19 PM, Subhransu Behera wrote:
In this meeting we'll focus on division of our work and creating
Bugzilla ticket
for tracking the individual sub-tasks. We'll welcome other
creative ideas which
any of you would like to share.
Looking forward to see many of you in the
On 15-Apr-08, at 7:04 PM, sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote:
We now have a new OSI board member from Pune !!
Harshad Gune from SICSR has been elected as a board member of OSI.
w00t
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On 13-Apr-08, at 3:10 PM, Arun Khan wrote:
the problem with mandriva spring is this: I configure eth0 to connect
to the lan and eth1 to connect to internet. When I click 'share your
internet connection', I am shown eth1 as the interface to the
internet. Then I have to choose the interface to
On 14-Apr-08, at 8:37 AM, ഓം wrote:
In case if all internet sharing and firewall tools, all such tools
have default eth0 configured for connect to internet and eth1 to local
area network. If you want it done other way round, you need to tweak
the default configuration.. This is a 10 year old
On 14-Apr-08, at 9:00 AM, ഓം wrote:
I think it is noted in the basics of documentation on
firewall/gateway... tools... (Just in case needed), because I remember
reading it then...(10 years back :-)
I configured my first LAN about 20 years back - those days there was
just eth0 (or whatever
On 12-Apr-08, at 11:45 AM, Ameet Gholap wrote:
Asking this quest just for my understanding... How does the speed
of the car
related to the download speed?
if the car is moving towards the tower, the speed of the download is
increased by a factor of pi*(speedofcar/distancefromtower). And
hi,
I wanted to download Mandriva 2008 spring - which should be
mandriva2008.1. But all the links I see point to mandriva2008.0 -
what do I do?
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On 12-Apr-08, at 4:04 PM, sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote:
We already have the DVD of Mandriva 2008 Spring - Free available
with PLUG now.
can you confirm that the ipset problem in shorewall is fixed? Also I
had tried to share internet connection with the gui, but it kept
failing saying that
On 12-Apr-08, at 11:48 PM, sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote:
can you confirm that the ipset problem in shorewall is fixed?
Also I had
tried to share internet connection with the gui, but it kept
failing saying
that there is no ethernet connection to the LAN.
I have not tried it yet
On 10-Apr-08, at 10:56 AM, ഓം wrote:
http://www.mandriva.com/enterprise/en/company/press/mandriva-
presents-its-latest-distribution-mandriva-linux-2008-spring
would be interesting to see what new things are out there...
do you know if that ipset error in starting shorewall is fixed in
On 21-Mar-08, at 10:00 PM, Ameet Gholap wrote:
I am searching for an addon which will resume the download at a
certain
time.
use cron with
wget -c
or investigate curl. I used to use curl in the bad old days of 14.4
speeds and have downloaded a 100 mb file over a period of 20 days
On 20-Mar-08, at 12:10 PM, Devendra Laulkar wrote:
I would like to know the ideal swap partition size for new
computers which
typically come with 1 Gigs of RAM.
ideal is no swap - swap slows things down, and with gigs of RAM you
dont need swap. But keep a 500 MB swap space handy for
On 20-Mar-08, at 1:13 PM, ഓം wrote:
I searched up and found this interesting link..
http://www.hccfl.edu/pollock/AUnix1/Partitioning.htm
nice read - now if I could only find that article that specifies what
goes where in the / - what to put in /bin, or /sbin or /usr/bin etc etc
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On 20-Mar-08, at 1:44 PM, श्रीधर नारायण
दैठणकर wrote:
nice read - now if I could only find that article that specifies what
goes where in the / - what to put in /bin, or /sbin or /usr/bin
etc etc
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hiersektion=7
ask and you shall receive -
On 14-Mar-08, at 3:47 PM, Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui wrote:
I want to migrate one Mysql db another mysql Db.
Actually I'm migrating website from one CMS to another.
that is not migration. What you need is backup and restore
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On 14-Mar-08, at 4:19 PM, Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui wrote:
mysqldump is your friend.
It seem that u didn't understand problem.
It have to do mapping for tables and fields for migrating data from
one db to another.
because table structure of both the db are different.
if data is same
On 15-Mar-08, at 1:34 AM, Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui wrote:
if data is same and table structure different, you have to write sql
scripts to transfer the data from the old to the new - no tool
can do it
writing code is easier for me than writing sql. So I have decided to
write code
On 09-Mar-08, at 1:58 AM, शंतनु महाजन (Shantanoo
Mahajan) wrote:
How about using wget with '-c' option? That may be useful if there
is frequent disconnection.
e.g.
$ wget -c url
transfering files *to* the server
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On 04-Mar-08, at 7:58 PM, Rajiv Gore wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql/data/
postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql/data/ start
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On 29-Feb-08, at 7:43 PM, Rajiv Gore wrote:
Where can I find password for PostgrSQL?
you do not need a password for postgres. As root do:
/etc/init.d/postgresql stop
this will stop postgres if it is running or it will say it is not
running. Then do
/etc/init.d/postgresql start
this will
On 28-Feb-08, at 9:03 PM, Rajiv Gore wrote:
I have installed PGSQL 8.1.5-13 on Suse 10.2 using rpm provided on
Suse DVD.
I donot know where is password for super user postgres is stored
and hence I
can not log in and start postmater.
you do not need postgres password. Do su to become
hi,
NRC-FOSS is pleased to announce that IIT Hyderabad has released 4
voices - Tamil, Telegu, Hindi and Kannada under a CC license. This is
possibly the first time that an educational institution in India has
made such a release. The voices are available here:
On 23-Feb-08, at 4:40 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote:
On CSLug
what is CSLug?
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On 22-Feb-08, at 2:50 PM, ಓಂ wrote:
http://www.neng.usu.edu/cee/faculty/gurro/Scilab.html
can see it is *free*, now how much free is as debatable as .fr as
in france
you can modify the code and use the modified code in your
organisation - but you cannot distribute the modified code -
On 22-Feb-08, at 4:20 PM, ಓಂ wrote:
They are looking at it from different perspective. And they have
every right to do that. You branding them as non-FOSS does not change
who and how they are!
*I* have not branded them - even the OSI doesn't accept their license
as a an OSS license. And
On 22-Feb-08, at 7:26 PM, Aditya Godbole wrote:
*I* have not branded them - even the OSI doesn't accept their
license
as a an OSS license. And i our labs we had some enthusiastic
students
who were modifying scilab - and about to release the modifications
when they found it couldnt be
On 23-Feb-08, at 12:48 AM, Nishit Dave wrote:
please distinguish between localisation l10n and
internationalisation
i18n.
I am not so thoroughly well-versed in all matters techno-FOSS, but I
think localization is a term that gets bandied about freely, and
that's what I was talking about.
On 21-Feb-08, at 12:28 PM, Dexter wrote:
Found this intresting article
http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html
Please not I Have no intentions of a comparison with Emacs, nor am
planning VI v/s Emacs, which is better.
the most interesting thing about the article is that it is full of
ads
On 21-Feb-08, at 5:49 PM, Vivek Khurana wrote:
and people are asking why your irc nick is 'no_mind'!
I dont understand the purpose of a personalized comment in a general
discussion...
This is mailing list btw, not IRC.
true - apologies
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On 21-Feb-08, at 6:38 AM, bp wrote:
Scilab:- Bhopatkar Madam
scilab is not FOSS - better to demo octave
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On 21-Feb-08, at 7:34 PM, Nishit Dave wrote:
By the way, I hope they've done a thorough job of it, because
localisation usually has been seen to mean changing *some* menu items
to a local language, and no more.
please distinguish between localisation l10n and internationalisation
i18n.
On Wed, February 20, 2008 8:58 pm, Vivek Khurana wrote:
On 2/20/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
42 is the answer.
the question is the answer, the answer is the question...
so in the end there is only 42...
and people are asking why your irc nick is 'no_mind'!
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Hi,
Fossconf took place in Chennai on Feb 1 - 3 2008. There were around
100 talks, 40 demo stalls with student projects done in FOSS and
tutorial sessions. The attendance was around 700 on the first day,
1500-2000 on the second day and around 600 on the third day. About
80% of the
hi,
just to thank PLUG for the wonderful hospitality and congratulate you
on a successful conference. The only weak point I noticed was the
absence of engineering college students. In most places these form
the backbone of the LUGs. If you need any help from NRC-FOSS to
breach this
On 08-Feb-08, at 1:35 PM, ಓಂ wrote:
It's wonderful to know Kolhapur too is catching up on Linux Wagon...
report is now complete: http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/wiki/
KolhapurWorkshop
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Foss Conference for the common
Hi,
the report on the recent workshop in Ichalkaranji is here:
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/wiki/KolhapurWorkshop
We would like to thank the members of Mumbai and Pune LUGs for their
active and professional help in making the event a grand success.
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